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To: S.C. Barnard who wrote (97)	2/11/1999 7:21:00 PM
From: S.C. Barnard	of 1094

Great review from SmartMoney: smartmoney.com (Paul Cook, manager of Munder NetNet Fund) "...Cook cites another advantage to VerticalNet's business model: It has the potential to become profitable far faster than its rivals, which target consumers. Remember AOL? It is generating earnings now, but AOL was in the red on and off from its founding in 1985 until 1997 because it was spending roughly a third of its revenue carpet-bombing the country with diskettes. It's the same kind of marketing spending that keeps companies like Amazon.com (AMZN) from being profitable. But Cook says that companies targeting businesses will have to spend far less to get the attention of users. "Businesses are less interested in brand names," he says. "You provide them with a value proposition and they will come."

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